I can't wait for the marketing campaign. How ironic would it be if Pink Floyd licensed "Welcome to The Machine" for the media blitz?
Not as ironic as the campaign for Windows 95, which used The Rolling Stones' "Start Me Up." Recall that the lyrics included the phrase "You make a grown man cry."
There's just no way this research is not winning an IgNobel Prize. It fits the ethos: first it makes you laugh, then it makes you think.
At San Jose Family Camp in the middle of the Tuolumne River writing a Perl/CGI script to generate sendmail.cf files.
There's a saying: If you edit a sendmail.cf file once, you're a sysadmin. If you edit a sendmail.cf file twice, you're insane.
Writing Perl/CGI scripts to generate them seems so far down the rabbit hole, there's no way back. And in the middle of a river? Dude, you have my vote.
What's more, his analogy actually supports Comcast NOT charging Netflix, rather than the other way around.
Being a Canadian resident, if I want to send a letter to someone in Canada, I pay Canada Post to deliver it.
If, on the other hand, I want to send a letter to someone in a different country, say, the USA, or England, I pay Canada Post to deliver it. I do not have to pay the United States Postal Service or Royal Mail to deliver my letter sent from Canada.
In this analogy, countries and regional postal services are equivalent to ISPs. If I want to send a network packet (letter) to someone on a different ISP (in a different country), I pay my local ISP (postal service) to deliver it. Any ISP (country) beyond that is not my responsibility.
I made the same point back in March:
you can send one to anyone and not have to worry about what they have installed
Except that they need to be running Windows or Mac, with Microsoft Office installed.
Actually, LibreOffice/OpenOffice are pretty good at importing and exporting
You can even import
That said, I agree with TFA: don't go overboard with fancy spreadsheets. Keep them simple, for the sake of your own mental health and that of your co-workers.
She's just a political Kardashian, why do people pay any attention to her?
Well, her dad was POTUS, and her mom just might be the same in the near future. That, and she's intelligent and well-spoken (PhD in International Studies.)
I don't think the Kardashian sisters can match the above.
Whoops, make that parallax, not proper motion.
Mod parent up. Excellent post.
I'd add only one point: Tycho Brahe did not observe with a telescope. (He died before the telescope was invented and used for astronomy.) He used a quadrant, a device with a viewing sight (with no optics) attached to a pair of calibrated circular arcs that allowed him to measure the polar and azimuthal angular direction of the sight. Tycho Brahe was an outstanding observer, but he could not achieve the accuracy required to view the proper motion of the stars due to the motion of the earth around the sun.
fanboy alert. It's just biz, not science. if you really want to get a feeling of zero G, there are many cheaper alternatives out there.
Like scuba diving.
Just because you have money doesn't mean you need to throw it away on someone who does little more than primary school level maths.
The math is the easy part. But understanding the tax code: now that's a bitch.
...that he does his own taxes.
Doesn't this Game of Thrones gig pay enough for him to hire an accountant?
You don't get rich by spending money...
...or by overpaying tax.
For someone in his situation, an accountant is worth hiring, and probably more than pays for herself/himself in tax savings.
...that he does his own taxes.
Doesn't this Game of Thrones gig pay enough for him to hire an accountant?
How do employers know that you wrote the open source code? And not, say, your friend?
By doing as the GP suggests: looking at the code online, and then quizzing her/him about it during the interview.
I've only ever seen two groups of people, who advocated OO as some sort of inherent virtue in itself.
a} Psychopathic, buzzword-obsessed, clueless IT managers.
b} Elitist, equally clueless programmers, who mainly advocate OO and related languages, (such as C++) because they enjoy ego tripping about the fact that they can write code that nobody else is able to read, rather than actually getting real work done.
The main argument that both groups use to advocate OO, is the appeal to modernity fallacy. I.e., the idea that "modernity," is an inherent virtue, purely for its' own sake.
So as far as you're concerned there are only two groups who see value in OO: detached managers who are too far away from the code, and immersed developers who are too close to it. Since you're so fond of logical fallacies, let me introduce you to the one you're committing.
You ignore the excluded middle: the overwhelming number of programmers who have solved new problems with object-oriented techniques. Of course, they could have solved these problems with older tools, but with greater effort. My point is that new programming practices would help scientific programmers as well. Yet many of them stick to Fortran, a language that has been consistently way behind the programming practices of the past four decades. As a result, they only see their problems in terms of formulas and arrays, and do not recognize the expressive power of newer languages.
I think this entire discussion suffers from survivor bias: those who advocate strongly for Fortran have not given serious consideration to anything else.
Never ask two questions in a business letter. The reply will discuss the one you are least interested, and say nothing about the other.
